Now Serving: Sarika Thai opens second location

House specialties are served with vegetables and a side of
steamed white rice. They include spicy lemon grass, spicy ginger,
honey ginger, three flavor, Thai scampi or red sea, which is
sauteed in roasted chile sauce.

Also on the 50-item menu are pad Thai, spicy, see-ew and phad
woon-sen, lad-nar and curry noodles, as well as three types of
fried rice.

The lunch menu is much the same format but with a smaller entree
portion and includes soup, salad, fried spring roll and fried
wonton for between $6.50 (for chicken, pork or tofu) to $8.95 (for
fried red snapper or seafood).

For now, Vincent's younger brother, Tony, and his father, Greg,
help with the cooking. But when the time comes to hire more staff,
Vincent said, he will hire them as wait staff or prep cooks. "We
will always do the cooking," he said. "It will always be on us
because it is too hard to train people" in the subtleties of Thai
cooking.

But until then, Vincent said he enjoys spending time with
customers, chatting with them and helping them try new dishes and
styles. "My goal is to make people feel welcome and feel part of
the family," he said.